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Soonmot posted:We are three quarters through this final book wtf Wow, this really feels like our friends at Scholastic cut them off early. They are just racing through this stuff. (I have enough memories of being the target demographic to be certain that if I'd seen that cover with the coo-hatch on it, I'd have loudly declared "nope" and moved on to a less deeply-embarrassing series.) Was it Jalil's book where he mentions the drift that occurs between real-world and everworld minds, that they're slowly diverging? That was an interesting thread that never really got pursued. Also, April, ewww
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You can feel the cuts and dropped story lines.
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 04:04 |
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Yeah this is really barreling towards a “and then they all lived ever after” ending, wow
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Wow. Uh, that was a poo poo ending. The series started out find and then ramped up into a real page turner. This book, coming right after the rollercoaster ride of the last few was just disappointing on so many levels. Overall, I think this was a fun concept, and I enjoyed the series, but this ending is a big mark against it. Let all pour one out for Epi, his work with the animoprhs thread and the start of this one was amazing. I wish I knew how he researched all the behind the scenes info, because it would have been great to have some of those tidbits here. Only other bit is: Do yall want me to start a thread for The Remnants, keep using this one, or call it done?
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 02:30 |
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this book is so painfully, disappointingly rushed, and it hurt so much to read. Everworld deserved better than this. I was really enjoying what this series was putting down, at times even wishing I'd found it while it was still being published, but crashing and burning like this makes me pretty glad that I didn't. What a tragedy. Oh well, that's how it goes with serialized stories sometimes! Thanks for picking this up and seeing it through to the end, I'm glad to have read it even with the anti-climax we were left with. And once again thank you to Epicurius for starting the whole thing with Animorphs. Rest in peace, posting pal. I'd love to continue with Remnants if you're up for continuing to post. I never ended up reading that one either, and I'm curious to see what it's all about.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 02:46 |
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Oh man, that's it? That is incredibly anticlimactic. Thanks for doing the thread! I read the first book several times when it came out but never any of the others.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 03:57 |
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Oh wow, what a dire ending. Someone at Scholastic wanted that series finished yesterday, apparently.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:24 |
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drat, I can't believe Ka Anor said "I have to go, my people need me" and then died on the way back to his home planet. thank you for picking up the posting! I never would have read these books outside of this thread, it was really fun to take a trip back to my childhood! Edit: I've never heard of remnants, but I would love to read it, either in this thread or another!
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 04:38 |
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oh, uh, wow. that was almost literally a 'rocks fall, everyone dies' ending huh thanks for going through these soonmot! I gave up on these as a kid, too gory/scary/depressing, at least the first one or two were, so it's nice to go back and see it through
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 05:06 |
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Yeah, that was definitely a rough final book. Overall I do think the series as a whole was good, though. I would definitely be interested in reading Remnants if you are willing to post them.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 05:53 |
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Yeah they really could have used another few books to finish wrapping things up. That said I imagine the ending was going to be the same no matter how many books they had, they've been laying the groundwork for it since book 1 and I imagine even with a few more books we were probably always going to get a 'and the adventure continues' ending once Senna was killed and the others chose to stay in Everworld. Just needed more room to breathe. Overall I enjoyed it though, thanks for posting. Definitely interested in following along on Remnants, its the one I haven't read at all.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 07:01 |
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Great series and very unfortunate that it couldn't finish how it wanted to. Senna's death was a big shock to me and it really got me invested to see what happens next only to then realize there wasn't much left and the rest would likely fall hard. I really liked how it did the revolving narrators. Each book felt like it was that character's story to tell. Well, other than the Neptune one. It wouldn't have worked with anyone since it felt kinda pointless. Thanks for leading us through Everworld Soonmot! I'd be happy to see our readalongs continue with Remnants thread.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 08:01 |
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Wow, that's an "oof" ending. There was a lot more they could have done. It was a cleaner, faster ending to have all of them accept Everworld and disappear but I really think the intention was to have April choose the real world and to explore the complexities of that. Her religion was a big deal throughout the last third or so of the series and I really feel she would have chosen the real world, but it would have taken more time and page space to deal with one person being interrogated about the disappearance of all the others. Would have also afforded time for her to explore her feelings of what she did, "If it was over there, was it real? Who was it that did that, was it someone else or just a darker side of me?" I also kinda feel there might have been an intention to dive in to the existential details of who was "real" and if one side might be dying or feel like they're dying or something.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 15:47 |
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Man, lol that is a wildly unsatisfying and sudden ending. This type of ending can be done well if given some room to breathe and a little more ambiguity, but it seems like they really had to just kill the series. Thank you Soonmot for continuing in the tradition of Epi's excellent Animorphs thread. May he rest in peace. I'd be interested in Remnants. The Wikipedia is unusually garbled, difficult to even get a good idea of the story. I really enjoyed this series. Think I could have gotten a lot out of it if I had discovered it after Animorphs. Sadly, I think I had mostly fallen off reading those by the time Everworld came around. Loved the Jalil/Senna antagonism quite a lot. She's not quite Visser III level of smug and gloating evil, which made her much scarier and more realistic, and ultimately more of a question mark than him, until you get to her book and see that she's just... like that. Really interesting characterization all around.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 20:51 |
Zore posted:Yeah they really could have used another few books to finish wrapping things up. That said I imagine the ending was going to be the same no matter how many books they had, they've been laying the groundwork for it since book 1 and I imagine even with a few more books we were probably always going to get a 'and the adventure continues' ending once Senna was killed and the others chose to stay in Everworld. Just needed more room to breathe. Oh I have no problem with them all staying in Everworld, it was just the rapid consolidation of plots here at the end gave no breathing room for anything to have a real impact on me.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I really enjoyed this series. Think I could have gotten a lot out of it if I had discovered it after Animorphs. Sadly, I think I had mostly fallen off reading those by the time Everworld came around. Loved the Jalil/Senna antagonism quite a lot. She's not quite Visser III level of smug and gloating evil, which made her much scarier and more realistic, and ultimately more of a question mark than him, until you get to her book and see that she's just... like that. Really interesting characterization all around. I was a kid that did follow onto this series after Animoprhs and I arguably liked it more for being edgier and themed around social conflicts and personal relationships. But unlike Animoprhs I didn't know anyone else who read these, and it was pretty obvious they weren't selling anywhere near Animoprhs. I was also very disappointed with the ending at the time especially after the crazy 11th book. On reflection I think the ending is serviceable in that it answers the most important question of, what now? The kids accept their new life as reality and go on to have adventures. WTE. I didn't really need to see the showdown with Ka Anor, after all Senna was the big bad.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 22:06 |
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If Senna is the big bad, I guess the final book is Everworld's "Scouring of the Shire," with everyone passing into the West after their mental and spiritual wounds prove incurable. re: Remnants- I've never even heard of that series. Does it, uhh, have an ending? (Thanks again Soonmot for continuing Epi's work!)
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# ? May 3, 2024 15:24 |
New thread is up, first chapter won't start until tomorrow probably, let's get some ideas for a better thread title than what I picked. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4051462
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